When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo The Grammy award-winning Taj Mahal counts Led ...

Over the course of his fifty-plus years of active musicology, Taj Mahal has explored all manner of roots music, but he always returns to his main influences in the blues. His delving into reggae and ...

Taj Mahal performing “The Blues is Alright” Sept. 5 in Lowell, Mass. Taj Mahal sheds sunshine on the blues in more ways than one. He can pare the music down to its cotton-pickin’ essence as a field ...

The post Taj Mahal on Grammy Noms, Generational Blues, and Swingin’ Live in Tulsa: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Mahal’s signature style — deeply informed by blues, jazz, folk, and world ...

Kevin Moore — known by his stage name, Keb’ Mo’ — was just a teenager when he first heard Taj Mahal play. In the late 1960s, America was in the midst of a blues revival. Thanks to acts like Taj Mahal, ...

Springfield's Taj Mahal has earned five nominations from the Blues Foundation for Blues Music Awards, the genre's annual ceremony that celebrates the blues. Mahal has been nominated for Best Acoustic ...

ASPEN ” In one of his oldest and best-known songs, Taj Mahal opens a classic statement of the blues: “I had the blues so bad one time it put my face in a permanent frown.” In the next line, however, ...

Taj Mahal, the blues legend whose vibrant, worldly music encompassed African-rooted sounds of all kinds, will be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. By The Associated Press NEW YORK — Taj Mahal, the ...

Taj Mahal, the blues legend whose vibrant, worldly music encompassed African-rooted sounds of all kinds, will be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Mahal, whose real name is Henry St. Clair ...